Deployment Management

Question 1

What are the formats supported by Cloud Formation

Answer 1

JSON and YAML

Question 2

Mandatory fields of CF

Answer 2

Resources and their values

Question 3

Optional fields of CF

Answer 3

template file format, template parameters, output values, list of data tables

Question 4

What function can be used in CF to display outputs

Answer 4

Fn:GetAtt

Question 5

How can post configuration of an instance be done using CF

Answer 5

Puppet/Chef/Bootstrap scripts can do post configuration.

Question 6

T/F You able to preserve data when CF templates are deleted

Answer 6

Resources such snapshots of RDS databases or S3 data can be preserved if specified in the CF script

Question 7

T/F. Peerlink creation is supported via CF

Answer 7

True as long as its in the same account

Question 8

T/F. You can only create one VPC per CF

Answer 8

False. Multiple are supported

Question 9

What is a good use case for Elastic Beanstalk?

Answer 9

For developers that don’t know CF that would just like to run their code with some additional services

Question 10

T/F. You do not have access to the resources underneath Elastic Beanstalk

Answer 10

False. You have full access to all of the underlining resources

Question 11

What services are supported by Elastic beanstalk

Answer 11

Containers, EC2 instances, RDS, IAM, VPC, Dynamo, or any other hosted database service

Question 12

Where is the Elastic Beanstalk code stored

Answer 12

S3

Question 13

What is the application management service that uses Chef and Puppet to help with automation

Answer 13

OpsWorks

Question 14

What is an Opsworks stack

Answer 14

group of resources

Question 15

What is an Opsworks layer

Answer 15

individual item in the stack such as a database